From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 16919
Date: 2002-11-29
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From: Miguel Carrasquer
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, November 29, 2002 12:55 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] das Wort
> Perhaps then Germanic (ga-)warr- "confusion" (> Pol. gwar "turmoil, fuss")? Not sure if it's in Gothic, but since it also gives Romance *gwerra "war", it was apparently available.
But isn't the Gmc. root *wers-/*werz-? If so, EGmc. *ga-werzan- doesn't fit.
Piotr